On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Fadhley Salim <fadhley.sa...@uk.calyon.com> wrote: > I've noticed that with scipy 0.7.0 + numpy 1.2.1, an importing the factorial > function from the scipy module always seems to fail when scipy is installed > as a zipped ",egg" file. When the project is installed as an unzipped > directory it works fine. > > Is there any reason why this function should not be egg-safe? > > My test to verify this was pretty simple: I just installed my scipy egg > (made by extracting the Windows, Python 2.4 Superpack) with the easy_install > command. Whenever I install it with the "-Z" option (to uncompress) it works > fine. With the "-z" option it always fails. >
I don't think numpy/scipy are zip safe, the numpy packageloader uses os.path to find files. I would expect that you are not able to import anything, factorial might be just the first function that is loaded. easy_install usually does a check for zipsafe, and if it unpacks the egg it usually means it's not zipsafe, for example because of the use of __file__. That's my guess, Josef _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
